Can you print some of these on cards that we can tuck into our Bibles like we did the old Selfer's Prayer? 
Seriously, I like this. I know, it reads like a legal document
, but the points are all too important to be overlooked or sidestepped.
I had been thinking of a couple of TV programs in which lawyers had been found to have been practicing under fictitious or improperly obtained licenses. In both situations, all cases in which the false attorneys had participated had to be judicially reviewed and, in some the decisions had to be voided or reversed, or the cases had to be retried.
If legal counsel is only valid when provided by someone who has been properly trained, tested and approved by established and recognized authorities, how much more must it be crucial for those giving spiritual counsel to have been instructed by godly, righteous teachers and to have been examined and gained the approval and recognition of those who are proven servants of God?!! There is a certain resposibility attached to posting on the BB, but this is an open forum which has no officially recognized pastors, teachers, deacons, elders, etc. Each one of us may post according to our conscience, and we each will answer to the Lord for our decisions as all must, in all things.
But to accept and/or seek position/recognition at the head of God's people is an awesome responsibility, never to be lightly undertaken or carelessly entered into. The true leader must be the servant of all.
We have all served time, incarcerated in a place where black was called white, and light was obscured by darkness, and we must deal severely, each of us with himself, to assure that we
(I) am not participant in another such deluded and shameful abuse of God's people. We must be vigilant to keep ourselves pure before God, and to help each other through intercession in prayer, word and deed to live righteously in the liberty Christ has purchased for us at such unthinkable cost.
al Hartman
